Publishing Programmatically Using SAS

The Interface to the Publish Package CALL Routines can be used to write a SAS program to publish a package:

1. A package and its properties are defined using the PACKAGE_BEGIN CALL routine.

   Example:
   CALL PACKAGE_BEGIN(pid, desc, nameValue, rc);

2. Items are inserted in the package using an appropriate CALL routine.

   CALL routines fall into two categories of item types:

   • SAS results:
            INSERT_CATALOG
            INSERT_DATASET
            INSERT_FDB
            INSERT_MDDB
            INSERT_SQLVIEW

   • unstructured content:
            INSERT_FILE
            INSERT_HTML
            INSERT_REF
            INSERT_VIEWER

   Example:
   Call INSERT_DATASET(pid, libname, memname, description, NameValue, rc);

3. The destination (or transport) for delivering the package is defined using the PACKAGE_PUBLISH CALL routine.

   CALL routines for supported transports are as follows:

   • TO_ARCHIVE
   • TO_CHANNEL
   • TO_EMAIL
   • TO_QUEUE
   • TO_WEBDAV

   Example:
   publishType = "TO_ARCHIVE"
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CALL PACKAGE_PUBLISH (pid, publishType, rc, properties, archivePath, archiveName);

4. The end of the package is defined using the PACKAGE_END CALL routine.

   Example:
   CALL PACKAGE_END(pid, rc);

For complete details about how to use the Publish Package CALL routines to publish a package, see Publish Package Interface.